Introducing ‘Data Matters’: conversations with researchers : Scientific Data

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-05-27

Summary:

"As we move toward greater openness in science, the team at Scientific Data believe we need to fully grasp the benefits of and barriers to sharing data across the academic spectrum. To help us better our understanding of why the practice of sharing data is so varied across different disciplines, institutions, and geographies we interviewed numerous people who support the principle – from palaeontologists to neuroscientists and ecologists (to name just a few) but also those working with funding bodies and libraries. The results may surprise you. Even in fields which have promoted open data for some time, there is still work to be done in terms of raising quality and standards. Over the summer, we plan to publish all the interviews we conducted on this blog. The interviews address several themes, including: [1] Preservation of data [2] Credit and quality of data [3] Discoverability [4] Openness of data For now, we’ll give you a sneak peek of what’s to come, including interviews with Simon Hay (Professor Epidemiology, University of Oxford), Patricia Soranno (Professor in the Dept of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University), Timothy Rowe (Professor of Paleontology at the University of Texas) and Susanna-Assunta Sansone (Associate Director of Oxford e-Research Centre and Honorary Academic Editor of Scientific Data) ..."

Link:

http://blogs.nature.com/scientificdata/2014/05/27/introducing-data-matters-conversations-with-researchers/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.data oa.interviews oa.preservation oa.quality oa.impact oa.citations oa.formats oa.standards oa.people

Date tagged:

05/27/2014, 16:41

Date published:

05/27/2014, 12:41